Submission + - Opus - the codec to end all codecs (xiph.org) 4
jmv writes: "It's official. The Opus audio codec is now standardized by the IETF as RFC 6716. Opus is the first state-of-the-art, fully Free and Open audio codec ratified by a major standards organization. Better, Opus covers basically the entire audio-coding application space and manages to be as good or better than existing proprietary codecs over this whole space. Opus is the result of a collaboration between Xiph.Org, Mozilla, Microsoft (yes!), Broadcom, Octasic, and Google. See the Mozilla announcement and the Xiph.Org press release for more details."
Umm Thats Microsoft (through Skype) (Score:1)
The Xiph.org site sayes "Microsoft (through Skype)". Will Microsoft continue to support it? Or is the history that a much smaller independent Skype thought standards were a good idea and as a division of Microsoft they are having second thoughts.
Hopefully it will be widely adopted. Too bad Apple is not on the list.
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My money is on the following:
Microsoft renames Skype to Microsoft Windows Live Speech, Text and Image Communicator in 2015
Microsoft ends Linux support for the Skype client which won't have been updated in 4 years (2017)
Microsoft announces they're replacing the underlying codec technology of Windows Live with it (hopefully, because Microsoft's sucks by comparison) later that same year (2017).
G.723 off patent in 2 years (Score:1)
G.723 is coming off patent in just 2 years
G.729 will take a little longer
iLBC is already patent free
so is Speex
whats the fuss about this Opus codec ?
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whats the fuss about this Opus codec ?
They claim better performance. Higher quality per bit with excellent scalability. See the chart:
http://opus-codec.org/comparison/ [opus-codec.org]
And if those various patents are about done with, there is less chance that lawyers will try to sue Opus into a smoking crater, which ironically means the chances of Opus being adopted may get better rather than worse.
Odds are poor that Apple will add Opus support to the iPod, but that really isn't the intended use case anyway.
steveha